FCC Should Refrain From Auctioning Trademark Protected Numbers, 1-800 CONTACTs Says
The FCC should refrain from auctioning trademark protected numbers in new toll-free codes and create a right of first refusal to “confusingly” similar numbers, said a lawyer for 1-800 CONTACTs in a filing at the FCC in docket 17-192. The…
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Lanham Act, the primary federal trademark statute, prohibits bad actors from securing toll free numbers in the new 833 code that correspond to trademark protected numbers like “1-800 MATTRES, 1-800-FLOWERS and 1-800 CONTACTS and using them in a confusingly similar manner,” the filing said.